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Problem Description: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data.SQLite' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. Likely to be reproduced when: You will usually encounter this problem when you have downloaded a sample application that is a 32-bit application targeted for ASP.NET 2.0 or 3.5, and you have IIS7 on a 64-bit OS running .NET 4.0, because the default setting for running 32-bit application on IIS7 with 64-bit OS is false. Resolution: 1. ...

When I try to start the service, it fails and the following appears in the Application log within Event Viewer: Source: MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS Event ID: 17058 Task Category: Server Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Description: initerrlog: Could not open error log file ''. Operating system error = 3(The system cannot find the path specified.). To fix this I had to change the Log on as property of the service from Local Service to Local System Technorati Tags: sql server 2008,troubleshooting,servic... ...

I find that helping people troubleshoot FTP connectivity issues is much easier if they have PowerShell installed. I can just have them run the NetCmdlets ftp cmdlets with the –debug switch, which displays a trail of information about the communication over the wire. In this way you can see every command send to the server and every response coming back from the server, including what ports a server is attempting to use for ftp data connections. Very often ftp transfer connectivity errors are the ...